Sphinx your face by Sam205464

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Sphinx

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Sphinx tribal midrange strategy centered around The Ur-Sphinx. In the early game, it accelerates its mana using low-cost mana rocks and leans on eminence to discount its creature suite by one generic mana. In the midgame, it deploys resilient flying threats that double as potent card-draw and card-selection engines, such as Consecrated Sphinx, Prognostic Sphinx, and Windreader Sphinx. Defensive enchantments and creatures like Propaganda and Grand Abolisher keep the deck safe from aggressive attacks and counterplay during critical setup turns. Once established, the deck transitions into the late game by casting high-impact spells such as Breach the Multiverse and The Ur-Sphinx, using combat damage, mill triggers, and spell-theft to overwhelm the table. It maintains a healthy interaction suite of targeted exile spells and countermagic to protect its board and disrupt opposing combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Citywatch Sphinx
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ever-Watching Threshold
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghouls' Night Out
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hindering Light
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Inspired Sphinx
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Lae'zel's Acrobatics
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Marauding Sphinx
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflector Mage
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scheming Fence
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of Enlightenment
  • 1 Sphinx of Magosi
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watcher of Hours
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Witness of Tomorrows
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign